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Where to find great proxy servers for testing GeoIP services?

We would like to test a GeoIP-Service. Therefore we need to go to the site with an IP from another country. There are a lot of free proxy lists like http://nntime.com/proxy-country/ The problem with them is, that only the CoDeen-Proxies are working. But with CoDeen you can't select your country of origin (the same as with TOR). You get...

How to get user's country information.

Basically I need to identify the user's country at application startup and enable or disable a location based feature in my app based on his/her country. I need to do this as quickly as possible in the application delegate prior to the RootViewController's loading. Is there anyway of doing this in the iPhone SDK?? ...

What is the best way to deal with address inputs that can be from multiple countries?

Most of my websites in the past have been rather limited to the United States when it came to displaying addresses. On a project I'm working on right now, however, users can add events from all over the world. My problem is how to go about dealing with the different way in which addresses are displayed across the world. For example, City...

Map with political borders similar to google charts, "clickable" countries

Hi! I'd like to add a map of countries to my website where the user can choose a specific country by clicking on it. http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/gallery/map_charts.html has the looks i want, but it's not possible to underlay the countries with links, afaik(Besides lacking pan/zoom, nice to have). The interactive map(Geo Map) ...

Django: Country drop down list?

I have a form for address information. One of the fields is for the address country. Currently this is just a textbox. I would like a drop down list (of ISO 3166 countries) for this. I'm a django newbie so I haven't even used a Django Select widget yet. What is a good way to do this? Hard-code the choices in a file somewhere? Put ...

how to get country name and/or code by IP address?

Sorry for so noobish question but how can I do it with C++? I need to get country names and their 2-letter or 3-letter ISO codes (or whatever it's called) using a given IP address. Is there any way to do this easily? The only two ways I found are to use GeoIP C library or to download a free database but is there something more dynamic?...

GeoIP nearest (closest) country

Guys i have a little problem, i tried to find some examples on GeoIP based system that expands searches based on nearest neighbor countries. For example the visitor is from UK and tries to find IPs from France, Spain, Belgium etc. not for example Brazil, Argentina, China. So how can i get nearest countries from a given country/IP and exp...

Column type and size for international country subdivisions (states, provinces, territories etc)

I apologize if this is a duplication. What column standardization would you use for storing international country subdivision data? For example, if it was just US and Canada I believe all subdivisions have a 2-character abbreviation... which might lend to a Char(2) This cannot possibly be sustainable internationally lest we presume th...

.Net - CultureInfo: How to get country name

I used the code below to get the list of culture type, is their a way on how to get just the country name? Thank you static void Main(string[] args) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); foreach (CultureInfo ci in CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.SpecificCultures)) { sb.Appen...

Determining information about a phone number and reformatting in PHP

Hi there, I'm looking for a way of determining whether a phone number is in the international format or a local format, and if it's in the international format what country it belongs to. If it's in the local format it should prompt the user for the country code and then convert it into the international format. Examples: 00447749123...

How to sell paid application from an unsupported country

Hi, I want to sell an application developed by me, but this service is not supported in my country (Romania). So I want to ask a friend of mine who lives in a country (France or US) where selling paid applications is possible to help me with this. Now I don't know exactly what to tell him about the process: What is required by his side ?...

Retrieve country name from iPhone gps without internet!

Hello, In my application on the iPhone and iPod Touch I want to be able to retrieve the country a person is in without accessing the internet. I know how to do this with internet, so I know how to retrieve the longitudes and latitudes, I've read something about a file with the world borders included, but I don't know how to use this in ...